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- Maths reviewed by Josh Miller
- Tested by Diana Westfield
The UK Lotto prize calculator answers the question everyone asks the morning after: I got three numbers, what’s that worth? Since June 2026 every £2 line plays two rounds a draw, so you pick what you matched in Round 1 and in Round 2 and the CasinoCalcs calculator adds them up. Three numbers is £10 a round, two numbers is now £1 in cash, and five plus the bonus is a flat million.
UK Lotto prizes per round
| You match | Prize per round | Before June 2026 | Chance per round |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 numbers | £1 | Free Lucky Dip | 1 in 10.3 |
| 3 numbers | £10 | £30 | 1 in 96.2 |
| 4 numbers | £50 | £140 | 1 in 2,180 |
| 5 numbers | £1,000 | £1,750 | 1 in 144,415 |
| 5 + bonus | £1,000,000 | £1,000,000 | 1 in 7,509,579 |
| 6 numbers | Jackpot (shared) | Jackpot | 1 in 45,057,474 |
The prizes went down and the chances went up. With two rounds, a single line now has about a 1 in 48 shot at three numbers somewhere in the draw, instead of 1 in 96, and roughly 1 in 4.9 of winning anything at all. Those per-line figures come from our Lotto odds calculator, which works them out for the two-round format.
How much for 3 numbers on the Lotto?
£10. If the same line catches three in Round 1 and three in Round 2, that’s £20, and you get both. What you can’t do is stack prizes inside one round: five numbers plus the bonus pays the million, not the million plus the £1,000.
Two numbers is the one that confuses people. For years it was a free Lucky Dip, and plenty of players still expect a ticket back. It’s now a pound in cash per round, or £5 in a Must Be Won draw where the jackpot rolls down. In those rolldown draws the bigger fixed prizes get topped up as well, by amounts nobody knows until the draw is done, so the calculator only builds in the £5.
A worked example
Say your line gets 4 numbers in Round 1 and 2 numbers in Round 2 on a normal Wednesday. That’s £50 plus £1, so £51 back for a £2 line. Do it on three lines you play every week (the same numbers, a family thing) and the calculator shows £153.
The jackpot field only matters if you hit all six. Put in the advertised jackpot and how many others won it: two winners on a £4 million jackpot means £2 million each. The jackpot is one pot shared across both rounds, so a winner in Round 2 shares with a winner in Round 1.
Is a Lotto line worth £2?
On the money, no. The fixed prizes alone give back well under a pound per line, and the jackpot adds only a few pence of value however big it gets. The lottery expected value calculator puts a number on that. If you want to see what years of play look like, the UK Lotto simulator runs them in seconds, and how to play Lotto covers draw times, prices and claiming.
The Lotto is entertainment, not a plan. Set a budget you won’t miss. BeGambleAware.org has free, confidential help if it stops being fun.